Bruxellensis:Lando Lincoln: About 17 12-ounce beers in 20 minutes? Uh, yeah...I can see how someone could die from that.

Wouldn't that much of any fluid kill you?

Consider that, on average, a 12 oz beer = 1 shot of 80 proof liquor, that's a lot of alcohol. But 20 minutes isn't long enough for the body to process that much, I doubt it was alcohol poisoning. I forget how much water in a short period is fatal.

simplicimus:Bruxellensis: Lando Lincoln: About 17 12-ounce beers in 20 minutes? Uh, yeah...I can see how someone could die from that.

Wouldn't that much of any fluid kill you?

Consider that, on average, a 12 oz beer = 1 shot of 80 proof liquor, that's a lot of alcohol. But 20 minutes isn't long enough for the body to process that much, I doubt it was alcohol poisoning. I forget how much water in a short period is fatal.

Bruxellensis:simplicimus: Bruxellensis: Lando Lincoln: About 17 12-ounce beers in 20 minutes? Uh, yeah...I can see how someone could die from that.

Wouldn't that much of any fluid kill you?

Consider that, on average, a 12 oz beer = 1 shot of 80 proof liquor, that's a lot of alcohol. But 20 minutes isn't long enough for the body to process that much, I doubt it was alcohol poisoning. I forget how much water in a short period is fatal.

I forget also. Someone far less lazy than us should google it.

A lazy google says 1.5 gallons of water in an hour should do the trick.

simplicimus:Bruxellensis: Lando Lincoln: About 17 12-ounce beers in 20 minutes? Uh, yeah...I can see how someone could die from that.

Wouldn't that much of any fluid kill you?

Consider that, on average, a 12 oz beer = 1 shot of 80 proof liquor, that's a lot of alcohol. But 20 minutes isn't long enough for the body to process that much, I doubt it was alcohol poisoning. I forget how much water in a short period is fatal.

MaudlinMutantMollusk:simplicimus: Bruxellensis: Lando Lincoln: About 17 12-ounce beers in 20 minutes? Uh, yeah...I can see how someone could die from that.

Wouldn't that much of any fluid kill you?

Consider that, on average, a 12 oz beer = 1 shot of 80 proof liquor, that's a lot of alcohol. But 20 minutes isn't long enough for the body to process that much, I doubt it was alcohol poisoning. I forget how much water in a short period is fatal.

I think he got over carbonated

/suffocated from his own belching

Possible. Water poisoning is caused by loss of electrolytes, doubtful that could happen in 20 minutes.

simplicimus:MaudlinMutantMollusk: simplicimus: Bruxellensis: Lando Lincoln: About 17 12-ounce beers in 20 minutes? Uh, yeah...I can see how someone could die from that.

Wouldn't that much of any fluid kill you?

Consider that, on average, a 12 oz beer = 1 shot of 80 proof liquor, that's a lot of alcohol. But 20 minutes isn't long enough for the body to process that much, I doubt it was alcohol poisoning. I forget how much water in a short period is fatal.

I think he got over carbonated

/suffocated from his own belching

Possible. Water poisoning is caused by loss of electrolytes, doubtful that could happen in 20 minutes.

Yeah it wasn't the ingestion that killed him, that's WAY to short of time. I'm guessing he had an enlarged heart and the excess pressure from the amount of puking set off a heart attack.

An American walks into an Irish pub and says, "I'll give anyone $100 if they can drink ten Guinness's in ten minutes."Most people just ignore the absurd bet and go back to their conversations, but one guy jumps up and runs out of the pub. A little while later that guy comes back and asks the American, "Is that bet still on?""Sure."So the bartender lines ten Guinness's up on the bar the Irishman drinks them all in less than ten minutes.As the American hands over the money he asks, "Why did you jump up and leave?"The Irishman answers, "I ran out to the pub around the corner to see if I could do it."

If he dumped 6 liters of beer into his abdominal cavity that would completely screw up his blood fluid and electrolytes because it would get absorbed that fast across the entirety of peritoneum not to mention the much faster absorption of the alcohol. Poor bastard.

nekom:Does anyone over the age of 16 actually think drinking contests are somehow fun or in any way a great idea?

Before I answer: Have you ever gone to Walmart and seen an immensely fat woman wearing a tube-top and hotpants when she has no business wearing anything like that in front of other humans with the ability to see?

nekom:Does anyone over the age of 16 actually think drinking contests are somehow fun or in any way a great idea?

YES. We play every night. Jeopardy with beer rules. You get an answer wrong you drink. you get an answer right before your opponent they drink. daily doubles a re six sided dice roll and you exclusive question.

jayhawk88:nekom: Does anyone over the age of 16 actually think drinking contests are somehow fun or in any way a great idea?

Frat boys.

and sailors

/not so csb

hard to believe its been over ten years now but a friend of mine in the Navy came home on leave, several of his Navy buddies came along with him. My friend had a somewhat unique ability to down a pitcher of beer in under 10 seconds. After a full night of drinking everyone starting pooling money together to have my friend down a pitcher of beer, he did it, and then did another for good measure. Just five minutes later he was sitting on on a bar stool counting the money he had won, trying to light a cigarette when his own lights just went out. He fell over sideways, off the barstool, hitting the ground face first, unconscious. He threw up for hours afterwards. guess he was pretty close to death. He was never quite right after that either. Was kicked out of the navy about a year later for another alcohol related incident. Never came back home. I haven't heard from him since.

kindms:nekom: Does anyone over the age of 16 actually think drinking contests are somehow fun or in any way a great idea?

YES. We play every night. Jeopardy with beer rules. You get an answer wrong you drink. you get an answer right before your opponent they drink. daily doubles a re six sided dice roll and you exclusive question.

IdBeCrazyIf:DoBeDoBeDo: Yeah it wasn't the ingestion that killed him, that's WAY to short of time. I'm guessing he had an enlarged heart and the excess pressure from the amount of puking set off a heart attack.

Combination of depressed system from the alcohol, excess fluid and then the excess vomiting on an already stressed and weak heart.

I'd have to agree. 17 bottles worth of beer is a lot but the amount of alcohol in that much is unlikely to be lethal, especially since the full amount wasn't even all in his stomach until the 20 minute mark. Even then, only a portion of the alcohol would have been absorbed into his system in that short a time.

However, the physical stress of that much all at once, combined with violent vomiting and exacerbated by the fair amount of alcohol that did make it into his system in those 20 minutes definitely sound like three things that shouldn't be added together.